Film list

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Dancing Grass. Harvesting teff in the Tigrean highlands 2018 40'
  Directed by Mitiku Gabrehiwot .
Dancing Grass is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). It captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient
North and Northeast Africa Agriculture / Farming Food / Water
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Emails to My Little Sister 2018 35'
  Directed by Solomon Mekonen .
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe North and Northeast Africa Migration Race / Racism / Antiracism Colonialism / Postcolonialism Reflexivity
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Forget Alberto For Now 2020 19'
  Directed by Beina Xu .
A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things
Western Europe Western Mediterranean Reflexivity Migration Resettlement Refugees/ Displaced populations
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A Miscellany of Families 2015 36'
  Directed by Eluned Zoe Aiano .
This multi-layered documentary explores the way we navigate the stories that are presented to us during childhood and how we choose to pass them on through ideological influences and shifting values.